a la mode

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Do we think that in five years’ time there’ll have been a massive kick back and proper Crazy Gang up-and-unders will be a la mode?

From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2019

So I used to eat something called boeuf a la mode, which was a brisket braised in red wine with mushrooms, bacon and onion.

From Salon • May 25, 2019

Go there for 21 kinds of pie — and four scoops of vanilla ice cream, if you ask for it a la mode.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 25, 2018

Plop down in a swivel chair and make sure to order your dessert a la mode.

From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2016

He ordered that I be bought a new bag-wig, and my mother a whole series of costly dresses a la mode du beau monde.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson